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When it comes to Adidas/Supreme, does anyone's shop/clothing sponsor pay anyone more than their corporate shoe sponsor? You gotta think a pro-shoe with a company like Adidas pays more. I know some guys make a fortune off Volcom, but you still gotta think Grant and Louie are getting more from Cons and Nike respectively.
Thing is Supreme is a billion dollar company with less than 250 employees, riders and retail included. So there's room for some crazy salaries.
Edit - guy above is basically saying the same thing, my bad.
While I agree with this to an extent, you might be downplaying the ridiculous margins and relatively low operation costs the company probably has. Generally speaking, companies that aren't big in employee size but makes bank hooks the people up. But you usually don't see too many small companies have this type of success outside of videogame studios or tech startups so who knows.
Also a lot of the "Supreme probably pays more than Adidas" crowd is basing it off that one New York dude who said he was making 100k from managing the Lafayette store in the late 90s when it was still just a wigger brand. Preme jumped in popularity in 2006 (Nike Blazer collab), 2011 (that Odd Future bullshit), and in 2016-17 (Louis Vuitton collab). Usually companies that aren't publicly traded pay their employees more when they have that kind of growth. But again, who the fuck knows.
Generally, in situations similar to Supreme with small brands that blow-up (such as tech-startups or video game studios), you get some pay/bonuses in equity, which I've never heard of Supreme doing.
The big thing with Supreme's valuation is that the Carlyle Group money appears to be a cash-infusion with the idea of expanding the brand. They've doubled their amount of NA stores since (SF and Brooklyn) and have opened a significantly bigger store to replace the original location. Just prior to the investment they opened up Supreme Paris. Prior to that they just had NYC, LA, London and the 6 Japan stores. Due to the exclusivity that makes Supreme a desired product, they obviously have to be insanely careful on the roll-out of new stores, but you have to think they are going to slowly roll out more and more stores in desired locations. We probably aren't far off from Supreme Miami, Supreme Shanghai, Supreme Chicago, etc. Reading what was written at the time of the valuation of Supreme, it seemed heavily speculative on the growth of revenues, and not what it was currently delivering.
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